Jones focuses on how a proslavery “common sense” was the dominant ideological platform against which black people sought to exercise self-determination.

The racial agenda preserved in nineteenth-century print culture resonates with contemporary U.S.-Mexico relations.

: Graphics in Nineteenth-Century America”

How did the returned gaze of Chinese laborers function in relation to envisioned awareness of industrial speed?

From the 1960s to the 1990s, the history of New France seemed to drift from French historical consciousness.

Notwithstanding Turkish students’ lack of knowledge about the deep American past, their familiarity with American culture has grown since the end of the cold war and the expansion of cable television and the Internet…

By using legal knowledge as the central theme of the book, the author not only gives the reader guideposts that are easy to follow and remember, but also provides a blueprint for how some African Americans resisted racial degradation.

What distinguished these musicians […] was their firm belief that music, particularly the large instrumental works of Beethoven and Mendelssohn, not only symbolized the ideals of social harmony and equality, but also instantiated these ideals in performance.

Tennenhouse urges us to look beyond the political schism of the Revolution toward a generic English culture that was reproduced and adapted in colonial North America and that ironically became even more English after the colonists won political independence.

A welcome new edition of George Lippard’s provocative 1850 novella–

“This study presents the kind of creative synthesis and thoughtful working-out of big ideas that will make it required reading. . . “

Human love, not a wrenching religious conversion or spiritual journey, determined Johnston’s trajectory.

Were [Fijians] a race of their own or a mix of many?

Ghosts, [Richardson] argues, typically emerge from episodes of violence or oppression whose facts are historically hazy. In turn, the ghostly residues of these events are themselves unstable (or shifty) and can be easily made to serve a variety of political uses.

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